photos from JAM Community Art blog The Shingle Shelter Project « The Shingle Shelter Project involved the community of Sheet Harbour and surrounding villages along the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. The idea evolved out of a desire to showcase artistic talent, and to share something personal about themselves with the
Stories
Story: Locked out on Christmas Eve, but Candles were on at the Art Centre
It was Christmas Eve, about 17 years ago. There was over two feet of snow on the ground. I returned from my family’s Christmas Eve dinner at about midnight to find that I was locked out of my home. The Cabbagetown streets in Toronto’s downtown eastside were quiet. My boyfriend,
Story: « …enable artists with limited mobility the chance to create… » : Jeff Nachtigall’s Mobile Painting Device (Saskatoon)
______The Mobile Painting Device_________________ Artist, Jeff Nachtigall Recently, ArtBridges/ToileDesArts came across an amazing project run by Jeff Nachtigall, an artist based in Saskatoon. « Jeff Nachtigall designed the Mobile Painting Device (MPD). The MPD transforms the wheel chair into a giant paint brush, giving people living with neurological deficits opportunity to
Amnesty International Toronto’s Project: Urban Canvas (Summer 2010)
photograph by Susan Ashukian Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ARTICLE 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement. Amnesty International, AI Toronto (AITO) Project : Urban Canvas « The goal of the project is to create 30 murals, in the GTA, that depict each of the 30 human rights Articles
Quote: Andrea Dorfman, Canadian filmmaker and friend of ArtBridges
« A little while ago, I had an epiphany about why I became an artist, or why I could not have become anything BUT an artist. I believe in ART more than anything else because there is nothing else that I can think of that provides more possibility, challenge, opportunity and
« Why do you have to be so good?! »
I am getting compassion fatigue listening to your stories. The small part-time staff group at ArtBridges has been calling you and interviewing you with a questionnaire over the past 4 months, building profiles about your community arts centres/programs/resources. In the course of about 45 minutes (our shortest interview was
Story: Stephen Leafloor, the Canadian Floormasters and BluePrintForLife.
« We do these five day intense workshops, 8 hours a day, blood sweat and tears with the kids. Stretching with them, working with them, teaching them how to do- spin[s] on their back. And we also, progressively- as relationships develop with the kids- we do these intensive social work talks
Social Work Through Hiphop in Canada’s Arctic
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Q9EpqgfF0&playnext_from=TL&videos=AaNEt-y0Tw0&playnext=1] « BluePrintForLife is considered one of the worlds leading companies using HipHop as both a community development tool and as a model for alternative education and healing. BluePrintForLife (www.BluePrintForLife.ca) offers dynamic, culturally appropriate programs designed for First Nations and Inuit youth that are founded on HipHop, rooted in traditional culture,
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« Talent does not recognize geography or ethnic background. Talent must be found and if possible, fostered. But regardless of talent or affinity, being exposed to art teaches children about who they are and who they can be. » -Jennifer Fournier Retired Principal Dancer National Ballet of Canada In conversation about ArtBridges